Hackathons: connect with tech innovation leaders and teams of multi-skilled creators to build transformative solutions to the world’s most urgent challenges

Our hackathons bring together key partners from tech, social innovation and civil society to work with diverse young innovators from our networks and further afield to design, build, test and pitch the ideas and products that will shape our future.

We use our hands-on digital knowledge to facilitate and accelerate social innovation by organising tech events for a transformative, sustainable digital future. 

We provide leading-edge technology solutions to civic tech, social innovation and civil society networks, and we bring our sustainability-led approach to our technology projects and partners.

With several years of hackathon experience, and with our unique N3XTCODER matching algorithm, we can consistently build the best multidisciplinary teams with perfectly balanced skill sets. Our participants’ feedback: N3XTCODER events can be an enriching and career-changing experience!

Together, we build powerful teams that create cutting-edge tech solutions with real and measurable social impact.

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Agile Transformation

  • Adopt new digital and agile work processes to identify cutting-edge technologies that drive success. and. Attract the next generation of digital professionals to your organisation to create a strong foundation for fast and sustainable innovation.

Visibility

  • Showcase your expertise and support critical social challenges in your specialist field. Amplify your work and vision, raise your profile in your own networks and beyond through our communication channels and media partners with a focus on CSR goals.

Prototype the Future

  • In a world of chaos and disruption, be the change you want to see. Achieve measurable impact through unique collaborations; build digital products that have real social impact on the issues that you care about most. We form alliances with our clients and partners to create a network of changemakers. In our innovation formats, we leverage the power of interdisciplinary connections; we connect professionals from many fields and provide the perfect framework for them to address society’s most urgent challenges.

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Impact

+25

Hackathons since 2016

+10.000

Participants in all our events

+200

Experts collaborating in our hackathons

Events for transformative change

Our online and in-person events are designed with a fully customisable format to suit your individual needs for creating the vision, content and strategy that is right for you. Identify the most promising ventures and technologies and build your network ecosystem to drive sustainable future impact.

Build internal buy-in and your external profile be engaging and inspiring key stakeholders across your network.

Develop new products, collaborations and concepts that can become lighthouse projects that show vision and leadership in your field.

High value, cost efficient format: Minimal overhead for multiple  ideas and product development – external, fresh and diverse insight on your challenges built in by design

Create a strong sustainability story for the public and key stakeholders and boost the company’s image and brand.

Create external visibility and reach with CSR focus through N3XTCODER communication channels and media partners.

Challenge your internal timeline and get solution-oriented feedback at every stage of your development journey.

If you want to accelerate innovation and to develop new solutions for the key challenges your organisation faces, and if you seek a creative fast-paced format for building multiple game-changing solutions, then a hackathon will work for you. 

Hackathons are also the perfect format for bigger organisations or agencies looking to support and implement new solutions in their field, and where you can get to see up close  the technical and innovative skills you’ll need to reach your future goals.

At Visa, innovation is one of our core drivers. That’s why we initiated the FinTech4Impact ProductHack together with N3XTCODER...Together we quickly generated valuable insights into the field of sustainable FinTech and identified highly relevant solutions for us and our clients.

Ute König-Stemmler

Head of Business Development Central Europe - Visa

Alexander Balas

Innovate by Doing— this approach is like a turbo boost for the first step towards innovation! Especially the hackathons bring together diverse minds, sparking fresh ideas, improving collaboration, and accelerating problem-solving. We at Berlin Recycling haven’t just got great innovative ideas tested but also a real cultural impact of this open-innovation-format. Wanna get ready to innovate and thrive out of the box? Go and innovate by doing with the NC-Team!

Alexander Balas

Head of Strategy, Digitalization, Development | Berlin Recycling GmbH

Why us?

Since 2016, we have already organised 100+ impact events from workshops, meetup-series, hackathons, datathons to hybrid live events - we focus on sustainability, health, education and social impact. Throughout our journey, we have developed strong partnerships in technology, social innovation and science research, to build a diverse global network of changemakers.

Previous Hackathons

Connecting the Arctic

In November 2021, we brought the 2nd pan-European CASSINI hackathon to Berlin, Germany. Partially funded by the European Commission and co-organized with the dedicated CASSINI Hackathons team, we invited digital professionals from Germany and beyond to Spielfeld Digital Hub. Together we leveraged European space data to create digital solutions preserving nature – in collaboration with WWF Germany and LT&C.

re:think Circular Economy – The AI Innovation Programme

With our partners BSR and Berlin Recycling, we support and accelerate projects and early-stage startups across Europe pioneering AI use in circular economy applications. We worked on three key challenges: Incentives & Behaviour Change, Collection & Classification of Waste, Repair, Refurbish

Hackathon in Deutsches Museum

The 6th CASSINI Hackathon in Munich

Harnessing EU open-source earth observation satellite data for humanitarian aid and international development. Hosted at the Deutsches Museum, the event united over 80 professionals across seven teams, all committed to creating impactful digital tools for good causes.

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Simon Stegemman
Co-Founder & CEO

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